18th Century and Romantic Literature
The Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies Seminar is a research forum for those interested in the literature and culture of the period 1660 to 1830. It welcomes postgraduate students and teaching and research staff both from around Cambridge University (be that the English Faculty or other departments) and from beyond. Students and academics of all kinds, from postdoctoral researchers to professors, present papers for round-table discussion over drinks.
Camille Pissaro, Two Women Chatting by the Sea, St. Thomas, 1856
Seminars take place in the English Faculty at 5pm. For links to hybrid sessions please email the convenors at 18cRcambridge@gmail.com
Thursday 2 February
DR EMILY SENIOR (Birkbeck College, University of London) Faculty Board Room & Teams
‘“Nurse Flora, in Jamaica”: the Romantic Caribbean and its Afterlives’
Monday 20 Feb. This seminar has been ** rescheduled ** as a result of the ongoing UCU strike action. It will now take place in the Umney Theatre, Robinson College (& Teams)
PROF JOHN GARDNER (Anglia Ruskin University)
‘Turning the Screw: Literature, Technology and Culture. Engineering Romanticism, 1798–1851, a Leverhulme Trust Project’
Thursday 2 March
DR DAN SPERRIN (University of Cambridge) Faculty Board Room and Teams
‘Swift’s War and Peace’
Convenors: Rebecca Anne Barr, Phil Connell, Claire Wilkinson Twitter: @18cR_Cambridge
